The present study integrates four primary social cognition processes Joint Attention(JA), Intention Detection(ID), Per-spective Taking(PT), and Social Reference(SR) into lively comic scenarios in order to disentangle their relationships andpossible one-to-one connections. By using eye-tracking technique, gaze patterns in terms of Total Fixation Durationwere considered as indexes to examine the hypotheses. It is found that PT is positively correlated with JA, ID, and SRwhereas JA is positively correlated with ID and PT. As a criteria-related validation, the scores of Geneva Social CognitionScale(GeSoCS) were used to delineate the gaze performance. Participants with higher score in GeSoCS showed differenteye-movement patterns to those with lower score, indicating the pattern of eye movements could be a reliable indicatorof social cognition status. Moreover, the correlations revealed in the present study suggest that close connections existbetween social cognition processes and eye gaze scanning toward pictorial scenarios.

Theory of Mind (ToM) refers to the ability of individuals to understand beliefs, desires, and emotions of others. Ourstudy is based on the expert-novice paradigm and aims to investigate the operations of ToM of table tennis novices andexperts by the patterns of eye movement. Stimuli integrated cognitive and affective ToM dimensions analogical to thetable tennis situations and recorded response by eye-tracking technique. Reaction time, accuracy and eye movement datawere analysis indexes. Study results revealed that experts could predict the shot actions and emotional states of opponentsmore quickly and accurately than novices, also there were differences in eye trajectory traces. The findings clearly showthat eye-tracking technique can be used to illustrate table tennis expert-novice differences in ToM and provide suggestionsfor the development of table tennis training programs in use of eye tracker facilities.

Previous studies have suggested that, socially anxious individuals tend to avoid eye contact while looking toward faces.The study designed an emotional faces task consisted of human and comic face stimuli with 6 different emotions (happy,angry, sad, scared, stunned, confused), and recorded the eye movements to examine the hypotheses above. The resultsrevealed that high social anxiety (HSA), medium social anxiety (MSA) and low social anxiety (LSA) individuals have nosignificant difference on total fixation duration of the eyes, nose, and mouth among 6 different emotions. However, whilefocusing on the angry expression, LSA have significantly higher total fixation duration, visit count and area normalizedscore on the nose. It shows that LSA tend to focus on the nose intentionally when a person shows an angry face. Further-more, HSA show lower proportion of eyes to eyes, nose and mouth fixation duration than MSA in happy, sad and stunfaces.